Effect of biodiversity changes in disease risk: exploring disease emergence in a plant-virus system.

The effect of biodiversity on the ability of parasites to infect their host and cause disease (i.e. disease risk) is a major question in pathology, which is central to understand the emergence of infectious diseases, and to develop strategies for their management. Two hypotheses, which can be consid...

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Main Authors: Israel Pagán, Pablo González-Jara, Alejandra Moreno-Letelier, Manuel Rodelo-Urrego, Aurora Fraile, Daniel Piñero, Fernando García-Arenal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/22792068/pdf/?tool=EBI